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The government thinks it has finally found a popular policy. Better still, it is a policy that it can implement, or at least legislate for. According to a press release from the Department of Health and Social Care, a ban on disposable vapes is supported by ‘nearly 70 per cent of parents, teachers, healthcare professionals and the general public’. The British public love a ban. Last month a survey found that 29 per cent of us want to close the nightclubs to deal with the remnants of Covid-19 and 20 per cent want to re-introduce lockdown.

The rescheduled tenth Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control begins in Panama next Monday 5 February. Revisit the Global State of Tobacco Harm Reduction's Briefing Paper analysing the meeting agenda and accompanying documents and implications for safer nicotine products and tobacco harm reduction.

The number of illegal vapes seized at the border quadrupled last year as UK authorities wrestle with unlicensed imports amid a surge in youth vaping. More than 4.5m vapes weighing nearly ten tonnes were seized over the last 12 months, four times more than 2022. The figures were released to the BBC after a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. The government is soon to announce new rules for the industry, including a possible ban on disposable vapes.

In October 2021, the Australian Government made it illegal to sell vaping products that contain nicotine – to anyone – at retail outlets. Users of nicotine vaping product are required to have a prescription from a doctor and must purchase the vaping liquids from a pharmacy if they wish to legally access a vape within Australia, or through the personal importation scheme.

NZ First's Associate Health Minister Casey Costello has a lot of ideas about the regulation of tobacco - many of them will be controversial.

Our decline in smoking in the past four years is extraordinary – equivalent to what took two decades to achieve. New Zealand has recently had some of the most dramatic decreases in smoking in the world, including for Māori and highly deprived groups.

Findings by Public Health England (now the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities) show that vaping is 95 per cent less harmful than smoking, which is why the UK Government has wholeheartedly embraced vaping to achieve its smokefree goal for England by 2030: an approach which is pragmatic, evidence-based, and world leading.

Cigarettes and novel nicotine products should have different sets of regulations, public health experts urge, stressing that smoke-free alternatives are far less harmful and could help address the global smoking problem.

The Cochrane researchers reported that the use of nicotine-containing ECs was not associated with an increase in adverse or seriously adverse consequences compared to NRT or non-nicotine ECs. However, and this is critical, there was a lack of data, making conclusions of (...)

E‑cigarettes are a proven and probably the most effective harm reduction strategy for people who want to quit tobacco smoke—more effective than nicotine patches, nicotine gum, or other smoking cessation tools. Nicotine is the addictive component of tobacco smoke. But the tars and other components of tobacco smoke are what cause cancer, cardiovascular disease, and lung disease.